Welcome to my new blog! This blog will be about my life in Hope, Arkansas. We have recently moved here so my husband could pastor Grace Baptist Church. If you would like to know more about me, please visit my former blog, http://www.lifeinthehillcountry.blogspot.com/

I hope you will enjoy checking in on me and my family here at my blogspot. Sometimes I have absolutely nothing of interest to post, or nothing I’d want to post ;], so I may share a little devotional thought. Anyway, a blog isn’t worth having if the readers aren’t actively involved, so I want you to comment! I love hearing from you!

I hope you like the title. {Note: when I first started this blog, it was called “Valerie’s Hope Chest”. Since then, I’ve changed it to The Bishop’s Wife.} I tried to think of a way to use “Hope” in the title, and I really like what I came up with. A hope chest is where a young girl places things she will use in the future; a wedding dress, Grandmother’s silver, cross-stitch items for her home, these are all items that might go into a hope chest. I have goals, dreams and lessons that I want to place here in my online hope chest. I want to place thoughts and ideas that will be useful to me and my children someday when we go back and open it!

We all have hopes. They don’t stop after you’re married. Ultimately, I hope to hear my Father say one day in Heaven “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” I don’t have many talents, but thankfully, one doesn’t need talent to be faithful!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I look forward to continuing to keep in touch with you all.

Your friend in Hope,

~Valerie